“I work to earn a living”

Whoopi Goldberg has a confession.

The 68-year-old announced on Tuesday's episode of “The View” that she is leaning into the struggles of the working class.

“I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living,” Goldberg said after a Hot Topics segment surrounding Donald Trump’s second term as president.

The “Sister Act” star addressed the studio audience and explained, “If I had all the money in the world, I wouldn't be here, okay?” So I’m a working person, you know?”

“My child has to feed his family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it’s tough out there,” she continued. “I love something [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] did. Yes. We talk to people all the time who say, “That's what bothers me.” But what bothers everyone shouldn't be what puts 85% of other people in danger. I think that’s what we’re saying.”

Goldberg is currently the show's longest-running permanent co-host since joining the program in 2007.

The comedian's comments came as grocery store owners clapped back after Goldberg called them “pigs” over food inflation.

The presenter claimed: “The people who own the food are pigs” as she blamed them for rising supermarket prices on last Thursday's show. The episode aired live just a day after Donald Trump won the presidential election by lashing out at inflation during the campaign.

“Their wallets are bad, not because the Bidens have done anything. Not because the economy is bad. “Their grocery bills are what they are because the people who own the groceries are pigs,” Goldberg said.

The National Grocers Association, which represents more than 21,000 stores nationwide, objected in a letter to Brian Teta, executive producer of “The View,” obtained by the Post.

“We are deeply disturbed by these comments … calling people who own grocery stores 'pigs,'” said the letter from NGA CEO Greg Ferrara.

The trade group said grocery stores operate on “razor-thin” profit margins of between 1% and 2% and are misunderstood as the cause of food inflation. Some people driven by this rhetoric even end up committing “violent crimes” against retail workers.

“Statements that falsely portray grocers as 'meat eaters' not only exacerbate these tensions, but also risk further harm to these frontline workers who have continued to serve the public even during difficult times,” it said Letter.

Food inflation is the result of “broader economic issues,” including rising labor costs, Ferrara continued.

“We are completely outraged by the comments,” Zulema Wiscovitch, who owns two Associated stores in Rosedale, Queens and Brownsville, Brooklyn, and is co-president of the Associated Supermarket Group, told The Post.

She admitted that the clip of Goldberg's comment went viral in the food industry, leaving many feeling family businesses were being targeted by a celebrity who was “stoking hatred” against their employees.

“Grocerers are paying higher prices to manufacturers,” Wiscovitch said.

“It shows a lack of understanding of what is going on in the economy,” she concluded. “It is completely unacceptable that we should receive such an attack from a public figure.”